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hunt-lateral-movement

Hunt for lateral movement using PsExec, WMI, or similar techniques. Use when proactively searching for attackers moving through your network using admin tools. Searches for service installations, remote process execution, and suspicious network correlations.

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82%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A highly actionable hunt skill with executable queries and a clear, well-sequenced workflow. It is concise and well-organized, with only minor redundancy and the absence of explicit validation feedback loops limiting the top scores.

Suggestions

Consider merging or trimming the 'Key Indicators' table, since its rows restate information already conveyed by the inline UDM queries.

Add an explicit validation/checkpoint step (e.g., verify query result counts or sanity-check IOC enrichment) before escalating to incident response, to strengthen workflow feedback loops.

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

Mostly lean with dense, useful inline UDM queries and a one-line intro, but the 'Key Indicators' table partially duplicates the query content, keeping it just below the fully efficient score-5 anchor.

4 / 5

Actionability

Provides copy-paste-ready, fully executable UDM queries and concrete MCP tool calls with parameters and a placeholder table, covering the common lateral-movement cases as the score-5 anchor describes.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

Eight clearly sequenced steps with conditional branching (e.g., 'If suspicious process activity found, correlate with network'), but lacks explicit validate-and-retry checkpoints, fitting the score-4 anchor rather than the score-5 anchor with feedback loops.

4 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Well-organized into clear sections (Inputs, Workflow, Required Outputs, Key Indicators) with no nested references and appropriate delegation to other skills, but as a single ~150-line file with no file splitting it sits at the score-4 'good structure' anchor rather than score-5.

4 / 5

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20

Passed

Description

87%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, well-targeted description that clearly states both capability and trigger conditions with concrete, natural language. Minor room to broaden trigger synonyms and tighten action coverage, but it is highly distinctive and complete.

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Specificity

Lists several concrete actions — 'Searches for service installations, remote process execution, and suspicious network correlations' plus named techniques (PsExec, WMI) — with only minor coverage gaps, fitting the score-4 anchor rather than the fully comprehensive score-5.

4 / 5

Completeness

Explicitly answers both what ('Hunt for lateral movement using PsExec, WMI... Searches for service installations, remote process execution, and suspicious network correlations') and when ('Use when proactively searching for attackers moving through your network using admin tools') with concrete trigger phrases, matching the score-5 anchor.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Good keyword coverage including natural terms a hunter would say ('lateral movement', 'PsExec', 'WMI', 'admin tools', 'attackers moving through your network'), though a few synonyms/extensions are missing, placing it just below the comprehensive score-5 anchor.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Targets a clear niche (lateral movement hunting via specific admin tools) with distinct triggers and minimal overlap risk with other hunt skills, matching the score-5 anchor.

5 / 5

Total

18

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20

Passed

Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Total

15

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16

Passed

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